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Even geology papers about Heart Mountain are like, "Look, we all agree this 'volcanic gas earthquake hovercraft' thing seems like it can't possibly be right, but..."
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9 Comments
tal@lemmy.today · 66 pts · 301d
Huh. Hadn't heard of this before now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Mountain_(Wyoming)
Doxin@pawb.social · 31 pts · 300d
That last bit is absurd. A mountain was over highway speeds for 30 minutes?
Crazy
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 300d
This really messes with the concept of geologic timeframe,
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 300d
Now if only my kidney stones could move that fast
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 300d
they'd shoot out of your body and probably take some of it (parts you may value) along for the ride at those velocities
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 300d
Think of it as a really large boulder thrown from a volcanic eruption
tal@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 300d
Well, this is in Montana, and until 1999, they were unique in the US in not really having highway speed limits.
Amuletta@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 297d
The Ordovician period was 485.4 to 443.8 million years ago, so there may have been fossils in that layer that were long dead and turned to stone 400 millions years earlier than the slip, and then another 50 million years after that, there are modern humans speculating about the cause of this slippage.
I sort of get why some people are attracted to creationist beliefs about earth being only 6000 years old. Those time spans are dizzying to think about.
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 7 pts · 301d
Sadly, the Heart Mountain Relocation Center has little to do with this.